Pakistani Cuisine

Stuffed Round Gourd (Tinday) Recipe Type: Main Cuisine: Pakistani Author: Madiha Hamid Much like any other child, I had a special hatred for the deceptive ‘tinda’ which looked just like a potato but much to my dismay, wasn’t one. However, as I grew older I developed a taste for the … Read more

Haute cuisine it ain’t. But this multicultural melting pot of a meal is popular, tasty – and cheap.
Variously described as a porridge, soup or curry, haleem’s liquidity means it could be used as baby food, albeit for spice-loving infants. A rich stew of lentils, whole wheat and meat beef, mutton, lamb, chicken or a mixture the dish originated in Persia in the sixth century. When the Muslims conquered the area a century later, it spread throughout the Middle East and, ultimately, to the subcontinent.